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Season 5 Teaser: Web of Lies

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Mill+ worked with FX Networks and FX Design to create ‘Web of Lies’, a teaser for Season 5 of The Americans that draws on the intense, mysterious themes of the acclaimed drama. Created in Cinema 4D, the animation brilliantly emphasizes the complex relationship of the protagonists, symbolized by the ominous web that entangles them.

The use of Cinema 4D
and frame-by-frame animation were pivotal to the piece, which relies on photo-real
imagery of the elaborate and interlacing fibers to illustrate the connection
between two forces depicted in the show.

The Mill’s Creative
Director Grant Berry comments, “Capturing the drama and intense emotion of the
show was the main focus for our work. The depiction of the characters’
complicated relationship came to fruition in the final frame as they maintain
connection, only to keep pulling away from one another.”